2023-2024
A What-If Scenario: Forensic Investigative Genetic Genealogy & The Hound of the Baskervilles -- Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, Chicago, Illinois Sugar of Lead: Accidental Poisoning or Attempted Murder -- American Conference for Irish Studies Midwest Regional Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri 2022-2023 The Tech Murder Mystery: A Whodunnit by L. Sprague de Camp? -- Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Summer Salon "Is there Scotland in Space?" Using Time Travel to Critique Brexit in Doctor Who -- DePaul Pop Culture Conference, Chicago, Illinois Proverbial Onions: The Many-Layered Approach of Only Murders in the Building -- Framing [Serial] Killing: Changing Narratives "#MeToo? Establishing Consent in Portrayals of the Regency Era" -- Northeast Popular Culture Association Virtual Conference 2021-2022 "A Summer Sojourn for Seattle's 'Undernourished' Children: The Hollywood Fresh Air Camp of 1921" -- Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, Seattle, Washington (virtual conference due to Covid-19) "Smudges, Splashes, and Traces of Blood: Telling Stories via Forensic Evidence" -- Edinburgh Conan Doyle Network Conference, London, England (virtual conference due to Covid-19) "Sanditon: Perils & Pleasures in a Pandemic" -- Northeast Popular Culture Association Virtual Conference "The Impossibility of Internal Borders: Pandemic Political Cartoons in the Era of Brexit" -- American Conference for Irish Studies Midwest Regional Meeting, DeKalb, Illinois 2020-2021 "'No, I'm not lost, I'm with the Census!' Creating an Enumerator Archive to Aid Future Scholars" -- Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, Boston, Massachusetts (virtual conference due to Covid-19) "A Plea for Cremation: The Public Health Implications of Calamity & Crime in 19th-Century Ireland" -- American Conference for Irish Studies 2021 Virtual Conference (recording available on YouTube) "Professors on Poison: Expert Testimony in Victorian Scotland" -- Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico (virtual conference due to Covid-19) "The Future of Murder Investigation: Altered Carbon & Upload" -- Northeast Popular Culture Association, Manchester, New Hampshire (virtual conference due to Covid-19) "The Study of Footprints: Medical Jurisprudence in 19th-Century Scotland" -- Edinburgh Conan Doyle Network Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland (virtual conference due to Covid-19) 2019-2020 "Centennial Summer on Page & Screen: A World War II View of 1876 Philadelphia" -- Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (cancelled due to Covid-19) "Examining Brexit: The Uncivil War" -- Northeast Popular Culture Association Conference, Portsmouth, New Hampshire "Homicide by Misfortune: Views of Crime in 19th-Century Ireland" -- American Conference for Irish Studies Midwest Regional Meeting, Omaha, Nebraska 2018-2019 "Well-behaved women seldom make history…they change it: The Role of Lucy Preston in NBC’s Timeless" -- Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, Washington, D.C. "Dismantle or Restore: Debates Over the Glasgow School of Art" -- Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Dallas, Texas "Fair Murders & Miscarriages: Transportation of Irish Criminals in the 19th Century" -- American Conference for Irish Studies - South, Charleston, South Carolina Roundtable Discussant on 'A Hundred Years of Teaching, Learning, and Understanding the First World War: Where are we now?' -- 1918-2018. The End of the War & the Reshaping of a Century, University of Wolverhampton, England 2017-2018 "'Destruction of other Natures': Francis Hutcheson on the Morality of Murder in the 18th Century" -- American Conference for Irish Studies Annual Conference, Cork, Ireland "The Victorian Fascination with the Murder of Rizzio" -- 2018 Supernumerary INCS Conference on 'Measure and Excess', Rome, Italy "Imagined Epidemiology: Researching the Treatment of Greyscale in Game of Thrones" -- Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana "'Is there Scotland in space?' Brexit & the Imperial Mindset in Doctor Who" -- 30th Annual Meeting of the Far West Popular Culture Association, Las Vegas, Nevada (unable to attend due to illness) "Enlightened Scots of the 18th Century Enlightening Scots of the 21st" -- Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Joint Annual Conference, Toronto, Ontario 2016-2017 "Gender & the Study of Murder in 19th-Century Scottish Universities" -- Centre for Gender History, University of Glasgow, Scotland "Zigzagging: The Transatlantic Propaganda Value of Women in WWI Hospitals" -- Gender, citizenship and subjectivity in revolutionary Ireland and Europe 1917-1922 symposium, Dublin, Ireland "Victorian Violence in the College Classroom" -- Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada and the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States Joint Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia "Commemorating Our War: Approaches to Teaching Ireland & WWI" -- American Conference for Irish Studies Annual Conference, Kansas City, Missouri "Anatomy of a Classroom: Coeducating Medical Students in Victorian Scotland" -- Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania "Studying Murder in Scotland during the Long Nineteenth Century" -- 38th Session of the International Standing Conference on the History of Education, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois 2015-2016 "Explorations by Beginning Scholars: Benefits of an Entering Student Research Program" -- co-presented with Laura Moore, Conference on Undergraduate Research 2016 Biennial Conference, Tampa, Florida "'Deep Breath': The Doctor’s Gone Scottish!" -- 28th Annual Meeting of the Far West Popular Culture Association, Las Vegas, Nevada "Dirigibles, Detectives & Degrees: A Steampunk Look at Victorian Higher Education for Women" -- 55th Annual Meeting of the History of Education Society, St. Louis, Missouri 2014-2015 "Patronising Politics: The Better Together Campaign & the Scottish Independence Referendum" -- Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana "A Marriage of Inconvenience? Imagery & Rhetoric in the Scottish Independence Referendum Campaign" -- 17th Annual History Across the Disciplines Conference, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia 2013-2014 "A Mongoose & A Sex Scandal: Scarecrow and Mrs. King Do London" -- European Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, University of the Arts, London, England "University Women in Wartime: A Transatlantic Study, 1914-1918" -- 36th Session of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education -- Education, War and Peace, Institute of Education, University of London, England "Creating a Virtual European Union in the Midwest" -- Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, Chicago, Illinois "Spying on the Spies: Digital Collaboration and Research on Scarecrow and Mrs. King" -- Supervised undergraduate paper presentation at the Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri 2012-2013 "Assessing Victorian Coeducation at the Queen’s Colleges" -- American Conference for Irish Studies, Chicago, Illinois "'You sure know the hot spots': The nation's capital on screen in Scarecrow and Mrs. King" -- Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, Washington, D.C. (also served as panel chair) "The College Girl of America and her counterparts overseas, c. 1900-1920" -- 2012 Canadian History of Education Association/l'Association canadienne d'histoire de l'éducation conference, Vancouver, British Columbia "Locating Locations in TV's Scarecrow and Mrs. King" -- Midwest Popular Culture Association and Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference, Columbus, Ohio 2011-2012 Session Chair & Discussant for panel entitled "Women in Higher Education: Co-Education, Community, and Culture, 1890-1950" -- 51st Annual Meeting of the History of Education Society, Chicago, Illinois |
2010-2011
"A 'more vivid picture of their lives': Women during the French & Indian War" -- Fort Ticonderoga's Sixteenth Annual War College of the Seven Years' War, Ticonderoga, New York "Participants or Spectators? Sporting Women in Victorian Universities" -- North American Conference on British Studies/Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies, Baltimore, Maryland |
2009-2010
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2008-2009
"Women of the Mayflower, Before the Mayflower" -- Presentation for the Toledo Colony of Mayflower Descendents
"'The heather was on fire!' - The Admission of Women to the Universities of Scotland" -- Midwest Victorian Studies Association 2009 Conference, Richmond, Indiana Session Chair & Commentator for panel entitled "Civil War Memory & Legacies" -- Ohio Academy of History Annual Meeting, Akron, Ohio "Education & Empire: Representations of Higher Education in The Woman's World" -- Canadian History of Education Association 15th Biennial Conference, Sudbury, Ontario "39 Lessons: Engineering Education in Your Home" -- The Culture of Print in Science, Technology, and Medicine (STEM), The Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin |
2007-2008
"Conspicuous Consumption & Victorian Education" -- 30th Session of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education
-- Education and Inequality: Historical Approaches to Schooling and
Social Stratification, Rutgers University-Newark, New Jersey
"Art of 1908" - Video Exhibition at "Celebrate 1908" -- Auraria Casa Mayan Heritage Inc., July 23-25, 2008, Denver, Colorado "Attaining or Avoiding: Female education and the question of marriage" -- Fourteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota "'slipped in by the side door': The Acceptance & Education of Women at the University of Glasgow, 1868-1934" -- 2008 Policy History Conference, St. Louis, Missouri "The Popular Educator: The University in Your Home, c. 1938" -- History of Education Society 2007 Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio |
2006-2007
"The
Victorian Woman's View of the World" -- 16th Annual World History
Association Conference, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wisconsin
"Don't Know Much About History: What The Amazing Race reveals about Americans" -- Midwest Popular Culture Association and Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana "Cultural Imperialism in The Woman's World" -- Midwest Conference of British Studies, Indianapolis, Indiana |
2005-2006
"Teaching
Victorian Women: Challenges in Constructing an Interdisciplinary
Course" -- Beyond the Widening Sphere, New Transatlantic Perspectives
on Victorian Women, Royal Holloway College, University of London,
Egham, England
"Re-Adjustment & Americanization Following the First World War" -- War and Nation Building Conference, Farmingdale State University of New York, Farmingdale, New York "Desperate Housewives: Reflecting and Recording Women's History" -- Midwest Popular Culture Association and Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri "The Great Hunger & the Modern Tourist: Remembering, Reclaiming, and Reinventing Ireland" -- An gorta mor: Ireland's Great Hunger, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Connecticut |
2004-2005
"Great
Test, Great War: The University of Wisconsin during World War I"
-- New Scholarship Conference on Citizenship in Times of Crisis, Wayne
State University, Detroit, Michigan
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2003-2004
"'Our English Sisters': Scottish Higher Education & the British Empire" -- Re-Presenting the British Past:
Women, Gender and History in the British Isles, University of Glamorgan and Archif Menywod Cymru,
Pontypridd, Wales
Session Chair & Discussant for panel entitled "Gender and the Academy" -- 47th
Annual Missouri Valley History Conference, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Nebraska
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2002-2003
"A Plea for the Highlands of Scotland: University Reform in the Early 20th Century" -- 2nd Global Conference: The
Idea of Education, Mansfield College, Oxford, England
"Max Bickford vs. the female college ideal" (on a panel about the CBS series The Education of Max Bickford) -- The Local and the Global & Recovery Project/Redefining "Nuestra América", American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas
Session
Chair & Discussant
for panel entitled "Guns, Books, and Legacies: Ideals,
Opportunities, and Opportunity Costs in Higher Education" --
International Perspectives on Social Science History: Thinking
Globally, Researching Locally, Working Cooperatively, Social Science
History Association Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri
"Scottish Devolution & Nationalism: Was there ever such a thing as Great Britain?" -- Celtic Popular Culture Conference, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
2001-2002
"'Knocking at the Door': Women's Admission to Scottish Universities in the Late Nineteenth Century" -- Journées
d’études : "Débats et résistances autour
de la mixité dans l’éducation", Université
Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, France
"Women's
Higher Education in Late Victorian Society: A Comparative Study of
Improvement, Enlightenment, and Marriage" -- Michigan Academy of
Science, Arts, & Letters Annual Meeting, Central Michigan
University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan
"'To turn out efficient
housewives'? University women in Britain and America, 1860-1940"
-- Quantitative & Qualitative Approaches To Social Science History:
A Reappraisal, Social Science History Association 26th Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois
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1999-2000
"'The brilliant opening of a
stubborn battle': The Queen Margaret College Bazaar and women's
admission to higher education in Scotland, c. 1892" -- 11th Northern Victorian Studies Colloquium, Trinity and All Saints
College, University of Leeds, Horsforth, England
"Gendering the 'Wisconsin Idea': The Women's Self-Government Association and University Life, c. 1898-1948" -- History of Education Society Annual Conference, Winchester,
England
"Women and Post-Impeachment
Politics in the United States" -- Sex & the Citizen: Political and
National Identities 1500-2000, Scottish Women's History Network Conference, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
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1998-1999
"Innovation or Import?: The
Transatlantic Exchange of Ideas on University Coeducation in the Late
Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries" --Transatlanticisms: 14th
Annual Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference,
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
"University
Women During World War I: A Comparative Study" -- Economic &
Social History Society of Scotland's Annual Conference, University of
St. Andrews, Scotland
"'Close, but no cigar!' The
historical significance of Clinton's Impeachment" -- The History
Society, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
"'How a University Wages War': World War I at the University of Wisconsin" -- British Association for American Studies Annual Postgraduate Conference, University of Sussex, Brighton, England "'Trying to secure a footing': Correspondence and Viva Voce Courses of the Glasgow Association for the Higher Education of Women, 1878 to 1883" -- Learning From One Another Across Boundaries of Interpretation, Craft, and Perspective, History of Education Society Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois "'Wiscetiquette': Manners
and Behaviour at the University of Wisconsin" -- Collaboration &
Diversity: A Forum for New Historians, University of Strathclyde,
Glasgow, Scotland
"The Glasgow Association for the Higher Education of Women, and Queen Margaret College" -- Borders & Frontiers: Women's History Network Conference,
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
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1997-1998
"Sources & Methodology in the Study of University Coeducation in Nineteenth-Century America" -- Postgraduate Day Conference, Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland "'At the Dawn of Coeducation': Student Perceptions of Women in American Higher Education, c. 1870-1900" -- Crossing Disciplines: Identity, Nation, and Academic Culture, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia "'College life is milk and honey, Knowledge tends towards matrimony': Coeducation at the University of Wisconsin, 1848-1909" -- Great Lakes History Conference, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan |